Project manager position for two ERC projects

Do you have a high degree of independence and responsibility, and would you like to be part of coordinating two international teams developing cutting-edge research in political and legal anthropology? Then you would be an excellent fit for this position.

Your job
As project manager in our two new European Research Council projects, you will become part of the coordinating team of the INFRAEMPIRE and ARMIES projects and will work in close collaboration with Professor Rebecca Bryant and Dr. Tessa Diphoorn .

You will be responsible for all the core administrative tasks for two large teams, in collaboration with Rebecca Bryant and Tessa Diphoorn. The core duties are:

• assisting with recruitment of team members;
• organising meetings, workshops, and conferences, including participants’ travel, booking of accommodation, etc;
• note-taking for such meetings, where necessary;
• budget management, including tracking expenses;
• project correspondence, including with the funder;
• general communication of project development, such as website maintenance;
• data management tasks;
• assisting with general administrative tasks.

INFRAEMPIRE:

Rebecca Bryant’s project explores the ways that rising economic powers such as Turkey, China, and Brazil rely on building the infrastructure of other states to drive reconstruction in their own capitals and create ‘soft power’ empires. INFRAEMPIRE will turn an ethnographic lens on the infrastructural imperialism of the Turkish state, a growing power whose construction sector is reshaping the Global South and for almost two decades drove a domestic economic boom. INFRAEMPIRE’s six researchers will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in six cases at the seam of Eurasia, a critical geopolitical juncture where former and aspiring empires intersect, compete, and build new worlds through infrastructure.

ARMIES: Tessa Diphoorn's project is an ethnographic study of the everyday deployment of firearms and their societal impact in Brazil, Germany, and South Africa. The project examines and compares the various ways firearms produce communities, and it focuses on groups that are overlooked in the field of gun studies, such as gun owners associations and hunting clubs. The team of four researchers also aims to design a new multisensorial ethnographic toolkit to better understand why firearms are so attractive for certain groups of people.